The inveterate triumphalist and (more recently) expansionist in President Donald Trump was in full fury yet again during his self-congratulatory inaugural address to the joint session of the U.S. Congress on March 4.

Forget the glaring omissions of the customary elaboration of the government’s legislative priorities and appeals for bipartisan cooperation in a presidential opening statement, these evidently belong in another era.

Instead, the President taunted the Democratic opposition in Congress, criticising his predecessor Joe Biden as the worst leader in U.S. history. Rather, he was saved from the assassin’s bullet so that he could ‘make America Great Again’.

America, President Trump declared with characteristic bluster, had surpassed in a matter of only 40 days since the beginning of his second term, the accomplishments of all the previous U.S. administrations put together. A habitual purveyor of falsehoods and naked untruths, President Trump boasted that the mandate he received on November 5 was for a “bold and profound change.”

Never mind that his 1.5-point popular vote was the smallest margin an elected President has secured since Richard Nixon in 1968. The Democratic Representative from Texas, Al Green, who in February filed for impeachment proceedings against the President, vociferously........

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